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But he had prospered in his profession; and then had died with amazing suddenness, leaving his estate in an almost hopeless mess. Robert Hillyer had tackled the problem, Robert, the alert, the busy, the supremely confident, the typical money-getter of the money-worshipping metropolis.
Trying to lead a sober life! Tell me! I hear on all sides that your house has become a hot-bed of all that is worldly and luxurious in the city. And not content with that, you are scheming to corrupt the one who in this money-worshipping age is faithful to principle. I am almost disposed to say for the last time, 'Go your own ways, and never come near me again." "Do not say that yet, Aunt Agnes.
Really, of course, the dwarfs, giants, and gods are dramatizations of the three main orders of men: to wit, the instinctive, predatory, lustful, greedy people; the patient, toiling, stupid, respectful, money-worshipping people; and the intellectual, moral, talented people who devise and administer States and Churches.
An eminent writer lately published a book, in which he described his numerous failures in business, naively admitting, at the same time, that he was ignorant of the multiplication table; and he came to the conclusion that the real cause of his ill-success in life was the money-worshipping spirit of the age.
Could it be that the proud Castlemans of Castleman County had needed it also? If that guess at her inmost soul was correct, then what a drama was her meeting with me! A person who despised money, who had proven it by grim deeds and this a person of her own money-worshipping sex! What was the meaning of this phenomenon this new religion that was challenging the priesthood of Mammon?
He is certainly the sort of bard and counteractant most needed for our materialistic, self-assertive, money-worshipping, Anglo-Saxon races, and especially for the present age in America an age tyrannically regulated with reference to the manufacturer, the merchant, the financier, the politician and the day workman for whom and among whom he comes as the poet of melody, courtesy, deference poet of the mellow twilight of the past in Italy, Germany, Spain, and in Northern Europe poet of all sympathetic gentleness and universal poet of women and young people.
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